Aptofit: can I turn off the constant heart rate light?

The bigger problem is that turning it off in settings doesn’t actually stop the sensor from firing constantly in the background. I tested mine for a couple weeks with heart rate set to manual only and the battery still drained way faster than the 7 or 8 days they claim. Maybe two or three days at best. So either the setting doesn’t stick or something else is running the light anyway.

I get why it bugs you. That green light at night is annoying and it’s just burning power for data I never look at. If you don’t care about the heart rate numbers at all, the setting is about the only thing you can do, but don’t expect a huge difference in how often the sensor actually kicks on.

What I’d want to know is whether Aptofit even documents what that setting is supposed to change. Their manual is thin and the app doesn’t explain much. Feels like a lot of these watches just leave the sensor running and the toggle is mostly cosmetic.

Mine still does it after updates too, so it’s not something they quietly fixed. Anyway, curious if yours behaves the same after a day or two with it switched off.

Mine did the same and I never found a real switch for the sensor itself. What worked for me was putting it in sleep mode at night, since that’s the only time I really cared about the light. It still blinks a bit but way less. During the day I just ignore it now.

The light being on doesn’t really bother me, but I get why it would annoy someone. Mine is mostly covered by my wrist anyway so I barely notice it. If the option isn’t in settings then I don’t think there’s much you can do about it.

I’d just leave it. The sensor light on mine stays on too but the battery still lasts me almost a week, so it’s clearly not draining much. Digging around for a hidden switch isn’t worth the hassle if the watch is doing fine otherwise.

Still deciding on one myself. The light being on constantly is one of the things I keep coming back to, since I mostly just want step and sleep tracking. If it stays on even when you’re not moving, that feels like a design choice rather than an oversight. Curious whether it dims at all after a while.

I actually like having the light on since it reassures me the thing is doing something, even if that’s probably silly. Mine has been going for about five months now and the battery still holds up fine. So from my side it’s not really a problem worth fixing.

The light on mine only goes off if I take the watch off entirely. Otherwise it’s on whether I’m moving or not, so I stopped expecting the settings to fix it.